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Saying Adani will kill poor with guns tested here is just obnoxious or trolling. I can't be decide since keep coming up with such gems.
Mind your language.
Maybe simply stop patronizing DPSUs and give a actual level playing field to private sector. Maybe then we may actually stop looking outside even for pistols.
to bad Pvt sector can't build or do anything other than financial engineering.
Where is the authentic source that says Athos and MMRCA have been scrapped?. I think he is just making things up to gain views.
Yeah . He's put up a headline to attract eye balls & ended up saying something else in the video.
Seems like "atmanirbharta" is another Jumla by 56 inch. 10 years from now we would still be buying foreign basic equipments and in the name of indenigenization we would have some shitty toy gun from OFB.
For some reason you don't seem tickled , Eshwin when I mentioned the eyeballs his videos get & the money he makes laughing all the way to the bank. @Ashwin
Government mandates purchase of 26 military equipment only from domestic firms
So far, the defence ministry has notified 127 items where purchase preference is given to local suppliers.
Published: 21st May 2020 12:20 AM
By PTI
NEW DELHI: The defence ministry on Wednesday issued directives providing for procurement of 26 spares and equipment for military use only from domestic suppliers in sync with the government's focus on encouraging indigenous defence manufacturing, officials said.
The move came days after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman unveiled a series of reform measures to promote the domestic defence industry and cut India's reliance on imported weapons and military platforms.
All the items identified for procurement from domestic defence manufacturers are used in shipbuilding.
So far, the defence ministry has notified 127 items where purchase preference is given to local suppliers.
"In order to further encourage procurement from local suppliers, 26 items out of 127 already notified, have now been notified under clause 3(a) of the Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order 2017," the defence ministry said in a statement.
"Henceforth, procuring entities will procure these items only from local suppliers, irrespective of purchase value, provided that the local suppliers meet the minimum local content (MLC) as prescribed for each item," it said.
The local content prescribed for the 26 items is in the range of 40 per cent to 60 per cent.
The reform measures announced by Sitharaman included making separate budgetary outlay to procure Indian-made military hardware, increasing FDI limit from 49 per cent to 74 per cent under the automatic route and generating a year-wise negative list of weapons whose import will not be allowed.
India is one of the most lucrative markets for global defence giants as it figured among top three importers of military hardware in the world for the last eight years.
According to estimates, the Indian armed forces are projected to spend around USD 130 billion in capital procurement in the next five years.
Experts said increasing the existing Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) cap to 74 per cent will encourage global players like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Airbus and Dassault Aviation to set up manufacturing hubs in India and bring niche technology without hesitation as the firms will have majority stakes in their Indian subsidiaries.
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So far, the defence ministry has notified 127 items where purchase preference is given to local suppliers.
Published: 21st May 2020 12:20 AM
By PTI
NEW DELHI: The defence ministry on Wednesday issued directives providing for procurement of 26 spares and equipment for military use only from domestic suppliers in sync with the government's focus on encouraging indigenous defence manufacturing, officials said.
The move came days after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman unveiled a series of reform measures to promote the domestic defence industry and cut India's reliance on imported weapons and military platforms.
All the items identified for procurement from domestic defence manufacturers are used in shipbuilding.
So far, the defence ministry has notified 127 items where purchase preference is given to local suppliers.
"In order to further encourage procurement from local suppliers, 26 items out of 127 already notified, have now been notified under clause 3(a) of the Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India) Order 2017," the defence ministry said in a statement.
"Henceforth, procuring entities will procure these items only from local suppliers, irrespective of purchase value, provided that the local suppliers meet the minimum local content (MLC) as prescribed for each item," it said.
The local content prescribed for the 26 items is in the range of 40 per cent to 60 per cent.
The reform measures announced by Sitharaman included making separate budgetary outlay to procure Indian-made military hardware, increasing FDI limit from 49 per cent to 74 per cent under the automatic route and generating a year-wise negative list of weapons whose import will not be allowed.
India is one of the most lucrative markets for global defence giants as it figured among top three importers of military hardware in the world for the last eight years.
According to estimates, the Indian armed forces are projected to spend around USD 130 billion in capital procurement in the next five years.
Experts said increasing the existing Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) cap to 74 per cent will encourage global players like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Airbus and Dassault Aviation to set up manufacturing hubs in India and bring niche technology without hesitation as the firms will have majority stakes in their Indian subsidiaries.
Government mandates purchase of 26 military equipment only from domestic firms
NEW DELHI: The defence ministry on Wednesday issued directives providing for procurement of 26 spares and equipment for military use only from domestic supplier
Ordnance Factory employees plan protest
TIRUCHI, May 20, 2020 18:11 IST
Thousands of civilian employees in Ordnance Factory and the Heavy Alloy Penetrator Project Factory will send letters to the Prime Minister and Defence Minister against corporatisation of ordnance factories on May 21.
On May 22, members of All India Defence Employee Federation unions will wear black badge/ ribbon to express their disapproval of the increase in working hours and freezing / scrapping of labour laws.
The unions are opposed to the arbitrary decision to convert the 219-year-old state-owned Indian Ordnance Factories into a Corporation and listing it in the share market.
They fear that corporatisation will affect their service conditions and future, and emphasise that the ordnance factories need to function as a government organisation in the interest of national security and defence preparedness. They intend to convey through the protests their anguish over the government decision to abolish 9,304 posts in Military Engineering Services and abolition of posts in other army units, denial of National Pension Scheme for defence employees, and the move to bring in foreign direct investment in defence. Denial of fixed term employment takes away job security and reservation in government jobs
The first phase of programme opposing corporatisation of ordnance factories involving participation of 82,000 employees have been formulated by the AIDEF, Indian National Defence Workers Federation, and Bharatiya Pratiraksha Mazdoor Sangh, C. Srikumar, general secretary of AIDEF said.
Depending on developments, the protest will be intensified by employees of 41 ordnance factories, he said.
TIRUCHI, May 20, 2020 18:11 IST
Thousands of civilian employees in Ordnance Factory and the Heavy Alloy Penetrator Project Factory will send letters to the Prime Minister and Defence Minister against corporatisation of ordnance factories on May 21.
On May 22, members of All India Defence Employee Federation unions will wear black badge/ ribbon to express their disapproval of the increase in working hours and freezing / scrapping of labour laws.
The unions are opposed to the arbitrary decision to convert the 219-year-old state-owned Indian Ordnance Factories into a Corporation and listing it in the share market.
They fear that corporatisation will affect their service conditions and future, and emphasise that the ordnance factories need to function as a government organisation in the interest of national security and defence preparedness. They intend to convey through the protests their anguish over the government decision to abolish 9,304 posts in Military Engineering Services and abolition of posts in other army units, denial of National Pension Scheme for defence employees, and the move to bring in foreign direct investment in defence. Denial of fixed term employment takes away job security and reservation in government jobs
The first phase of programme opposing corporatisation of ordnance factories involving participation of 82,000 employees have been formulated by the AIDEF, Indian National Defence Workers Federation, and Bharatiya Pratiraksha Mazdoor Sangh, C. Srikumar, general secretary of AIDEF said.
Depending on developments, the protest will be intensified by employees of 41 ordnance factories, he said.
These are not defence items but simple "spares", if this stuff was imported in the past then it just gives a glimpse of deep corruption that exists.
Indian Army concerns over quality control, weekly ammunition-related accidents: Why Centre is pushing to corporatize OFB
The apprehension was not just about fatalities, injuries and damage to equipment due to defects but also on the overall preparedness for the Indian Army.
Casting doubt on standards of quality control, blaming ordnance factories alone for ammunition-related accidents unfair
Recurrence of accidents after implementation of all the recommendations of these committees indicate a limited understanding of the underlying causes of the accidents and call for a holistic approach to such an exercise.